Venezuela

OAS has demanded a recall referendum in Venezuela; the OAS regional block released a statement, in which the fifteen member states have demanded that the state of Venezuela acts and carries out the referendum this year, and without delay.

The recently nationalized, and now worker-occupied Kimberly-Clark factory in Venezuela has managed to produce more than 2 million sanitary pads, Venezuela Analysis reported, citing the government sources.

The foreign ministers of both countries have discussed the possibility of issuing special IDs for Venezuelan and Colombian border citizens; this is just the first step in the plan of reopening the border completely, after almost a year being closed.

Venezuelans who are committed to the change in Venezuela know that the President of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Tibisay Lucena, together with the government and its allies, have taken action to delay the call for a referendum process against Maduro.

In April of this year, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, had the idea of lessening the food crisis we Venezuelans are currently suffering and that has worsened in the last three years since he assumed political power, by creating local Committees of Supply and Production (CLAP).

The increasingly chaotic situation in the area causes the risk posted to Venezuelan lives to worsen; the shortage of quality drinking water, food, medicine and hygiene products, among other things, continue to claim the lives of Venezuela’s social strata, as conditions and diseases such as scabies, malaria, dengue, diarrhea, hepatitis, and …

This past weekend, the borders between Venezuela and Colombia were opened after a one­ year closure. Thousands of Venezuelans crossed over to Colombia to buy food, medicine, and other basic goods that are scarce in Venezuela.